Cory Farley: They're out there in the universe - and it's cool

10:10 AM,
Nov. 10, 2013

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Cory Farley

"There are sextillions of stars, trillions of planets. Assuming we're alone is an insult to whatever Force you believe in: Would it waste all that just to produce us?"

If I had a better filing system or could figure out the Gazette-Journal's website, I could look up when I wrote that. I did write it, though, a few weeks ago. Billions of planets; what are the chances ours is the only one with life? And no creature on any of them cares anything about our problems. A lost football game, the extinction of the human race, the re-election of Rand Paul - none would make the tiniest ripple in the fabric of the ...